Quotatives considers the phenomenon
‚quotation‘ from a wealth of perspectives. It
consolidates findings from different strands of research, combining
formal and functional approaches for the definition of reported
discourse and situating the phenomenon in a broader typological and
sociolinguistic perspective.
* Provides an interface between sociolinguistic research and
other linguistic disciplines, in particular discourse analysis,
typology, construction grammar but also more formal approaches
* Incorporates innovative methodology that draws on discourse
analytic, typological and sociolinguistic approaches
* Investigates the system both in its diachronic development as
well as via cross-variety comparisons
* Presents careful definition of the envelope of variation and
considers alternative definitions of the phenomenon
‚quotation‘
* Empirical findings are reported from distribution and
perception data, which allows comparing and contrasting perception
and reality
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements vii
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiii
1 Introduction: What’s New about the New Quotatives?
1
The History of Innovative Quotatives 4
Why? 12
2 You Can Quote Me On That: Defining Quotation 34
Defining Quotation 37
Direct versus Indirect Quotes 55
Why Does it Matter? The Ramifications of Variable Definition
64
3 Variation and Change in the Quotative System: The Global
versus the Local 89
Tracing the Global Attestation of Innovative Quotatives 90
Investigating Models of Diffusion 93
Investigating the Global Reality of Innovative Quotatives 97
Putting It All Together 134
4 Quotation across the Generations: A Short History of Speech
and Thought Reporting 148
Tracing Quotation in Tyneside English across the Past 60 Years
150
Quotations across the Decades: Tracing the Changes in the
Variable Grammar 166
How to Create Variability in a Low Entropy System? 183
5 Ideologies and Attitudes to Newcomer Quotatives 198
Don’t Sound Stupid, Stop Saying like 198
Language Ideologies: Facts and Fiction 202
Testing Attitudes towards the Innovative Quotatives 207
What Type of Person would use such a Form? Testing Associations
with Personality Traits 210
Where do be like and go come from? Investigating the Perceptual
Geographies of Innovative Quotatives 221
Social Perceptions Associated with be like and go 227
Youth Inarticulateness and the Pedagogical Debate 234
6 Lessons Learned from Research on Quotation 245
The Innovative Quotatives: A New, Uniform and Unique Phenomenon?
245
The Elephant in the Room: Situating Quotation in Linguistic
Modularity 251
Tackling Some Illusions 256
Tracing the Present and Future of Quotative Forms 258
Conclusion 270
Appendix 1 Linear Regression Analysis Investigating the
Conditioning Factors on the Quotative System in the US and the UK
278
Appendix 2 Alternative Cross-Tabulations 279
Appendix 3 Social Attitudes Survey 284
Index 295
Über den Autor
Isabelle Buchstaller is professor for English at Leipzig University. Her research focuses on (morpho-) syntactic and discourse phenomena, including quotation, intensification and Northern English features, such as the Northern subject rule. Among her publications is Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (2012, with Ingrid van Alphen), which investigates quotation cross-linguistically from a wealth of disciplines.
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